Texas wins it in the 25th

In the longest game in NCAA history, Texas beat Boston College 3-2 in 25 innings at the Austin Regional of the NCAA tournament. The game lasted seven hours, three minutes.

Travis Tucker, in his 12th plate appearance of the night, bounced a single through the right side of a drawn in infield to score Connor Rowe with one out in the top of the 25th. With his arms outstretched, Tucker held on to the bat more than halfway up the first base line as the crowd — delirious in the early-morning hours — went crazy.

But because UT was the road team by virtue of a coin flip, the Longhorns still had to close out Boston College in the bottom of the 25th, and Austin Dicharry — who had entered the game in the 20th — retired the Eagles in order to finish his 5 2/3 innings of relief.

When the final out was recorded on a ground ball to second base, UT’s entire roster stormed onto the field, converging in shallow center field. The players fired their gloves into the air, shook hands with the Eagles, then saluted the crowd for the singing of “The Eyes of Texas.”